Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to escalate in the US and around the world, we are committed to keeping our teams and their families as our greatest priority. To that end, we are making some adjustments to the way we will be doing business in the upcoming weeks.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to keep our employees and customers safe, and would love to have you on our team as we can continue to serve our communities.

To say that Home Chef is an exciting and fast-moving place today is an understatement - our already fast growing business is seeing even more growth due to the current COVID-19 crisis, and just like other organizations, we’re pushing to be innovative and entrepreneurial when it comes to both navigating the current situation as well as standing up operations for the “new normal”. It’s a challenge to take on, but with a team of humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers, we know we are up for the challenge. And we’re looking for someone else to join the team and take on that challenge with us!

We’re looking for someone with a passion for people and operations, and an innovative streak. We call this role “Special Projects” because we have a lot of big, challenging projects on the People team that we want this role to take on. Near term, this may focus heavily on projects related to COVID-19, as we would like this person to be a major figure in our COVID-19 response and go-forward strategy for the entire plant organization. Long-term, the projects and opportunities for this role are endless, as we look to grow and develop our People function into a forward-thinking, analytical People organization that will support the future of Home Chef. This role is also a launching point to other roles and functions within the Home Chef organization. Many of our employees who begin in Special Projects move across the organization and eventually into senior leadership roles.

Summary of Responsibilities:

This individual will be responsible for high-impact People initiatives related to, but not limited to, people analytics, COVID-19 response and future state planning and next-gen HR processes. This person will be the subject matter expert on COVID-19 issues and responses at Home Chef’s three production facilities. This will include advising plant and corporate leadership on social distancing measures we can or should be taking, leading the design of processes to support improved sanitation and PPE usage, building relationships with local authorities and putting in innovative new processes to better plan and manage our workforce through uncertainty. But this role is so much more than just COVID-19, and an ideal candidate will also help lead a transformation of our Plant HR organization into a more efficient and analytics-driven team that is positioned to make decisions through a data-driven lens. As such, this role is expected to have strong capabilities in analyzing data, identifying trends, and creating compelling storylines from the data to enable Home Chef’s People leadership team to make effective decisions.

Own the COVID-19 response efforts at the plants, including operations and HR:

Prepare site-specific plans and contingency plans for each plant

Quickly understand existing social distancing measures and create enhancements that could further support these initiatives

Stay up-to-date on latest developments, as well as innovative approaches / technologies other companies are using to keep employees safe and reduce possible exposure risks

Spend time on the ground at each facilities (as travel permits) to understand operations and perform periodic audits to ensure sites are following all guidelines

Provide direction to onsite social distancing supervisors at all 3 facilities - both virtually and in-person (when possible)

Oversee the existing plant-related COVID-19 task forces, provide them with direction and keep the executive team updated on progress

Proactively build contacts and relationships with CDC, OSHA, local health departments to ensure that Home Chef is kept up to date on developments and that we maintain positive relationships with authorities

Support the Corporate team in its transition back to the office and co-create how the organization will work together in the future

Build additional infrastructure / capability to be more analytical and data driven as a people organization:

Lead efforts to make the Home Chef People organization more innovative and push the envelope in terms of how we use data analytics to make decisions